Khmer-Thai Wars
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Military History
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, Empires, Dynasties, Invasions, Raids, Conquests, Sieges
- Curriculum: Asian History
- Geographical Location: Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Indochina
- Date: 1352-1434
Article abstract: At issue: Siamese attempts to exert political dominance over Cambodia. Result: Political and territorial decline of the Khmer Empire.
Background
By the middle of the fourteenth century, the once-great Khmer Empire, which at its height encompassed much of modern Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand, was in the midst of an agonizing centuries-long decline. The Mongol conquest of China during the thirteenth century transformed what had been a slow southern migration of the Thai people from Yunnan to Southeast Asia into a mass exodus. The refugees...
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